Legal Opinion
Clarence Duke McGann v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 13, 1958No. 7750_1PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.
Clarence Duke McGann, now at Leavenworth serving a twenty-year sentence, appeals from the District Court’s denial of his motion, filed under Title 28 U.S. C.A. § 2255, to vacate the conviction which he asserts has subjected him to double jeopardy.
In 1954 the United States Grand Jury for the District of Maryland returned two indictments against the appellant. The first, Criminal No. 23017, was in four counts and charged him with robbery of a national bank in violation of Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 2113. The indictment described the bank as a member of the Federal Reserve System,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Pereira v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Gavieres v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Charles Woodrow Burns v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1956
- Clarence Duke McGann v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1957
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Lawrence Furman Smith v. James D. Cox, Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1970
- Veney v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1962
- Cardova Lawary v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1979
- United States v. William Fred BurnsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1983
- John Henry Downey v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1971
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